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Nico OK in Bologna after earthquake

May 21, 2012 - 10:34am

Franko

Nico OK in Bologna after earthquake

I just heard from Nico who lives in Bologna Italy http://www.thefreshloaf.com/user/nicodvband am happy to report he's safe and sound after the 6.0 earthquake and no property damage sustained. He said it was pretty scary, happening at 4:00 AM and lasting about 40 seconds, but that all was fine with him after it had subsided. Phew!

Hi, thanks everybody for you words. As Franko wrote the earthquake was really long and scary. It was of the same intensity as the one in L'Aquila in 2009 (6th degree of the Richter scale), but fortunately the damages were much lower, although not at all neglectable. The territory is plane, but apparently it's a bordeline area where the Appennine push against the Alps.

At night I had fallen asleep on the couch after watching a documentary about the earth formation: volcanoes, huge eruptions, continent separations ... and many quakes, yet when I woke up for the strange movements of the couch it took me a long while to realize what was going on. I couldn't sleep after that.

In Bologna there was no damage, but in the near countries (all quite old) a lot of buildings collapsed. 7 people died, unfortunately.

Your watching a doc on Earth's plates and consequences of their movement when you went to sleep was weird. Maybe you had a premonition and have hidden talents beyond baking. How are you with lottery numbers?

Nico, I am glad you are safe and sound. I can understand and sympathize. I lived about 3 miles from the epicenter of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake here is Southern California. It is the most terrifying thing I have ever experinced. Large powerful earthquakes and very scary. Once again I am glad you are safe and sound.

Today there was a very strong quake, in my opinion even stronger than the big one last week in the night. At 9 am I was at home and for the first time I felt the need to repair under a door: I feared that something could fall on me because everything was shaking, including a bookshelf overloaded with heavy stuff. Since then there's been one quake of lesser intensity every 15 minutes.

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